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L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:1-47

The feast of Pentecost in Israel looked forward to the very day on which God had decreed that the Spirit of God should come to form and indwell and empower the Church of God, which Christ had declared He would build (Matthew 16:18). He is the promise of the Father (Ch.1:4); He is sent by the Son from the Father (John 15:26); He has come of His own volition (John 16:13); for He is God. The disciples were with one accord in one place, a precious indication from the very beginning of the unity of... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Acts 2:1-47

THE FORMATION OF THE CHURCH THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (Acts 2:1-4 ) The Day of Pentecost alludes to the Levitical feast, with which we became acquainted in the Old Testament. The word is Greek, meaning fifty, the feast occurring fifty days after the offering of the barley sheaf in the Passover feast. It commemorated the wheat harvest and was sometimes called “the Feast of harvest” (Exodus 33:16 ), or “the Feast of Weeks,” (Exodus 34:22 ), or the “Day of the First Fruits” (Numbers... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Acts 2:37-47

Chapter 8 Prayer Almighty God, we stand in thy wisdom and are therefore not afraid. In our hearts is the Spirit of thy grace, and great comfort have they that yield themselves to its sway. We come with open hearts, with mouths filled with prayer and minds aflame with sacred desire. We ask thee to receive our psalm of adoration, to listen to our hymn of praise, and to answer the request which is as a burden upon our souls. How comfortable are thy words, how sweet is every promise of thine,... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Acts 2:41-47

Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. (42) And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. (43) And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. (44) And all that believed were together, and had all things common; (45) And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Acts 2:42

In the communication of the breaking of bread, by which some understand their ordinary meals, and eating together; others, of the celestial bread of the holy Sacrament, Greek: tou arton, panis illius, scilicet Eucharisti'e6. The Eucharist is called both by St. Luke and St. Paul, the breaking of bread. (Menochius, in ver. 42. and 46.) --- In the Syriac, for Greek: artou, is a term that means Eucharist, both here and in Acts xx. as the learned Joannes Harlemius remarks in Indice Bibliorum. ---... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Acts 2:42-47

42-47 In these verses we have the history of the truly primitive church, of the first days of it; its state of infancy indeed, but, like that, the state of its greatest innocence. They kept close to holy ordinances, and abounded in piety and devotion; for Christianity, when admitted in the power of it, will dispose the soul to communion with God in all those ways wherein he has appointed us to meet him, and has promised to meet us. The greatness of the event raised them above the world, and the... read more

Frank Binford Hole

F. B. Hole's Old and New Testament Commentary - Acts 2:1-99

Acts 2 IF WE READ Leviticus 23.0 , we can see that just as the Passover was prophetic of the death of Christ, so Pentecost was prophetic of the coming of the Spirit, in whose power there is presented to God the “new meat offering” consisting of the two loaves of firstfruits an election from both Jew and Gentile, sanctified by the Holy Ghost. Just as that to which the Passover pointed was fulfilled on the Passover day, so that to which Pentecost pointed was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost. On... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Acts 2:41-47

The effect of the sermon in the establishment and progress of the Church: v. 41. Then they that gladly received his word were baptized; and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. v. 42. And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. v. 43. And fear came upon every soul; and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. v. 44. And all that believed were together, and had all things... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Acts 2:42-47

E.—The Holy, Devout, and Blessed state of the Primitive ChurchActs 2:42-4742And they continued [adhered] steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and [to the teaching of the apostles, and to the] fellowship, and [om. and]21 in [to] breaking of bread, and in [to the, ταῖς] prayers. 43And [But] fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. 44And all that believed were together, and had all things common; 45And sold their possessions [estates] and goods... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Acts 2:42

Acts PETER’ S FIRST SERMON A FOURFOLD CORD Act_2:42 . The Early Church was not a pattern for us, and the idea of its greatly superior purity is very largely a delusion. But still, though that be true, the occasional glimpses that we get at intervals in the early chapters of this Book of the Acts of the Apostles do present a very instructive and beautiful picture of what a Christian society may be, and therefore of what Christian Churches and Christian individuals ought to be. The words that... read more